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★ Winner of Samsung Galaxy Note App Challenge ★

Learn to write Chinese with Monkey Write!

Chinese characters are written in a specific order to give them structure. Follow the stroke numbers to learn to write each character. When you are confident, turn off the stroke numbers and see if you can do it yourself.

The stroke widths vary according to your writing pressure. It works with your finger, capacitive stylus as well as active stylus such as the Samsung S Pen from Galaxy Note, the HTC Scribe Digital Stylus from HTC Flyer, or the DirectStylus from Tegra Note.

Monkey Write is lightweight and fun, great for children and adults alike. When you have learned all the characters in the Introduction workbook, go back to the bookshelf and download some more. There are many workbooks to choose from, so you can learn auspicious characters for the calligraphy in your living room, or pick up a Chinese menu and figure out if you're eating beef or lamb.

Besides the thematic workbooks, you can also get the radical series to boost your character knowledge, or the immersion series for your child. Kindergarten is the first workbook in the immersion series. Stay tuned for Grades 1 through 6 in future updates.

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Disappointingly expensive This app is well made and would be really good for learning Chinese writing, but the number of characters learn without paying for extra character packs is miniscule, the price for extra character sets is exorbitant, and the number of available extra character sets seems minimal as well. It would also benefit from a mode where it removes the character outline and requires you to write it solely from memory. It's a shame because this app is almost what i was looking for, but not enough and at high cost.

It's nice.. oh, nice.. it's sure very nice.. And I'd be glad to have this one.. for half a price..:-) *** Finally, I've bought it. Still it's too expensive. And it crushes getting to the last character of ''Eating out''. Please, repair.

Too basic. It should have an extra level attached where it doesn't show the outline of the character so you can write it entirely from memory. This app is only really good for learning stroke order. There are much better Chinese writing apps available for free.

App works just fine; however, when I tried to get it on my Samsung galaxy note 4, it doesn't show that I had purchased it through Google play. I do have it on my nook. Help me get the entire version on my Samsung galaxy note 4 without having to purchase it again. It is already on my nook.

Such fun! Very happy! So trace! OK, that's a riff on a Japanese Doge, but the sentiment remains. This app is very fun, easy to learn & I'm starting to see patterns. Also, the pronunciation & pinyin tools create a good learning experience :)

Disappointingly expensive This app is well made and would be really good for learning Chinese writing, but the number of characters learn without paying for extra character packs is miniscule, the price for extra character sets is exorbitant, and the number of available extra character sets seems minimal as well. It would also benefit from a mode where it removes the character outline and requires you to write it solely from memory. It's a shame because this app is almost what i was looking for, but not enough and at high cost.

It's nice.. oh, nice.. it's sure very nice.. And I'd be glad to have this one.. for half a price..:-) *** Finally, I've bought it. Still it's too expensive. And it crushes getting to the last character of ''Eating out''. Please, repair.

Too basic. It should have an extra level attached where it doesn't show the outline of the character so you can write it entirely from memory. This app is only really good for learning stroke order. There are much better Chinese writing apps available for free.

App works just fine; however, when I tried to get it on my Samsung galaxy note 4, it doesn't show that I had purchased it through Google play. I do have it on my nook. Help me get the entire version on my Samsung galaxy note 4 without having to purchase it again. It is already on my nook.

Such fun! Very happy! So trace! OK, that's a riff on a Japanese Doge, but the sentiment remains. This app is very fun, easy to learn & I'm starting to see patterns. Also, the pronunciation & pinyin tools create a good learning experience :)

Learn Chinese Characters fast The best way to learn Chinese characters is to write the word yourself. This allows you trace each character and show the order of the strokes to write the character. Trace, and revisit to do it again tomorrow.

Nice learning tool My children and I are having fun learning chinese writing. The only suggestion I have is to include the Cantonese pronounciations as well (yes, Mandarin is the official dialedct of mainland China, but the majority of "overseas" chinese speak Cantonese as does Taiwan, Hong Kong, ...)

Expensive for little values, filled with crashes The word packs are way too expensive...There are about 3000 commonly used Chinese characters, yet around each pack of 20-40 words cost 2$ each? Not worth the investment at all. You'd better buy a manual or a book. The HSK app is better at this for a lower amount of cash and a larger vocabulary. Unfortunately, its writing app sucks. Software also crashes a lot, A LOT.

excellent but didnt like the update excellent tool. my 3 yo would pick up my phone to practise writing herself! but she lost interest after the option to choose stroke colour was gone - pls bring it back!!

Rubbish Thought this would be good. Only to find it provides one symbol for intro stage free. Directions are free and all the useful stuff you have to pay for. Make your mind up. If you advertise package as free make it free or charge from the beginning. Fed up installing packages like this one only to find cannot access content.!!!!!!!!!!!

A great app is an app that you keep using. And in this case my son Charlie keeps coming back over & over. I just bought the Kindergarten level and most of the other radical packages because Charlie requested for them. Some packages feature more characters than others, but on the whole I found it good value. Background: We are not native Chinese speakers. Although I'm Chinese, I struggle slightly myself even with conversational Mandarin. Charlie has been immersed in pre-nursery Chinese but does not fall to Chinese without some effort.

Loving It! I'm full Asian and one part of me is Chinese and I need to understand this part of me more, I'm such a noob! This app is awesome! I love that there's the little 'i' for information, it gives more information and it tells you if you add something together it gives another word, it's a great app I love it. Recommend! ^^v